Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Contributors | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Colonial Modernity and Family Law Codes | |
Disobedient Wives and Neglectful Husbands | |
Marital Relations and the First Phase of Family Law Reform in Egypt | p. 3 |
Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Property | |
The Impact of Colonial State Policies on Gender Relations in India | p. 19 |
Religion, Custom, the State, and Patriarchy | |
The Monotheisms, Patriarchy and the Constitutional Right to Human Dignity in Israel | p. 43 |
Legal Pluralism Versus a Uniform Civil Code | |
The Continuing Debates in India | p. 65 |
Institutions and Women's Rights | |
Religion, the State, and Family in Turkey | p. 79 |
Family Law Codes Contested and (Re)constructed | |
Struggles over Personal Status and Family Law in Post-Baathist Iraq | p. 105 |
Family, Gender, and Law in Jordan and Palestine | p. 126 |
Revisiting the Debate on Family Law in Morocco | |
Context, Actors, and Discourses | p. 145 |
Straddling CEDAW and the MMA | |
Conflicting Visions of Women's Rights in Contemporary Pakistan | p. 163 |
Women's Roles and Family Relationships Renegotiated and Redefined | |
Gender and Law(s) | |
Moral Regulation in Contemporary Bangladesh | p. 187 |
Shifting Practices and Identities | |
Nontraditional Relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis | p. 211 |
Afghan Refugee Women in Iran | |
Revisioning the Afghan Family | p. 223 |
Works Cited | p. 251 |
Index | p. 283 |
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